Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

1168.0. "Orphan MAIL.TXT Fix" by ATLANA::SHERMAN (Debt Free!) Mon Aug 03 1992 17:48

   Hi All,

   Ever have one of those days when all of the free space on your system
   disk disappeared and everything ground to a halt?  Well, friends, it
   just may have been due to one of those 'undocumented features' that were
   reported, beginning in the mid-Eighties (!), and is just now being fixed.

   In this case, after you can get to the system disk, and analyze it via
   ANALYZE/DISK/REPAIR, you typically see hundreds (or thousands!) of
   references to a file named MAIL.TXT, with a lost header error message.
   All of these 'lost' files get placed into [SYSLOST] where you can then
   delete them and get back all of your system disk's missing free space.

   For a detailed discussion of where these orphans come from, see the
   conference at BULOVA::VMSMAIL, topics 649,767,928,1025,1229,1295, and
   especially 1417's replies .1 and .2; this is also referenced in the
   current VAXWRK::VMSNOTES conference at topic #1831.

   So, if your system passes a lot of VMSmail traffic, you probably should
   get the patch from your CSC and install it.  Note that there is a separate
   patch for Version 5.5 of VMS.  (FWIW, this seems to have been exacerbated
   following our upgrade to the MAILbus V3.2 products.)

   Hth,

	Ron